Bale
E491221
Bale is a traditional Sasak architectural structure from Lombok, Indonesia, typically built on stilts with thatched roofs and used for dwelling and communal activities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bale canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5059082 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bale Context triple: [Sasak people, traditionalHouseType, Bale]
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A.
Gareth
Gareth is a masculine given name of Welsh origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Alistair
Alistair is a masculine given name of Scottish origin commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Bolten
Bolten is a surname most notably associated with Josh Bolten, a former White House Chief of Staff under U.S. President George W. Bush.
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D.
Colin
Colin is a masculine given name of Irish and Scottish origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Finlay
Finlay was a notable philhellene, remembered for his significant support of and involvement with the Greek cause.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bale Target entity description: Bale is a traditional Sasak architectural structure from Lombok, Indonesia, typically built on stilts with thatched roofs and used for dwelling and communal activities.
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A.
Gareth
Gareth is a masculine given name of Welsh origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Alistair
Alistair is a masculine given name of Scottish origin commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Bolten
Bolten is a surname most notably associated with Josh Bolten, a former White House Chief of Staff under U.S. President George W. Bush.
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D.
Colin
Colin is a masculine given name of Irish and Scottish origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Finlay
Finlay was a notable philhellene, remembered for his significant support of and involvement with the Greek cause.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
stilt house
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traditional Sasak architectural structure ⓘ vernacular architecture ⓘ |
| adaptedTo |
seismic conditions
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tropical climate ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Sasak traditional architecture ⓘ |
| builtOn | stilts ⓘ |
| category |
Austronesian vernacular architecture
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Indonesian traditional house ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Sasak culture ⓘ |
| elevatedAbove | ground ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
meeting space
ⓘ
residential space ⓘ resting place ⓘ |
| hasMaterial |
bamboo
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thatch ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| hasRoofType | thatched roof ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Indonesia
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Lombok ⓘ West Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| partOf | traditional Sasak village layout ⓘ |
| roofShape | pitched ⓘ |
| significance | symbol of Sasak identity ⓘ |
| usedBy | Sasak people ⓘ |
| usedFor |
communal activities
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dwelling ⓘ family activities ⓘ social gatherings ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Bale Description of subject: Bale is a traditional Sasak architectural structure from Lombok, Indonesia, typically built on stilts with thatched roofs and used for dwelling and communal activities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.